The stories featured in Greek out are usually original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features getting pregnant from eating fruit,

fatherless sons, turning to stone,

blaming the messengers and putting curses on wildlife.

Yep, once again, we're taking a break from your regularly scheduled programming to go on a field trip.

This time we're going further than we've ever gone before.

All the way to South America to the Andes Mountains.

Now usually, we associate this area with the Incans and we call it the Incan Empire.

The Incans are people who lived in modern-day Peru and Bolivia between 500 and 600 years ago.

This was about the same time as the Italian Renaissance.

And when Joan of Arc led the French army into battle.

They had a vast empire that covered about 770,000 square miles along the Andes Mountains.

And you can imagine that within that empire there were many different cultures.

They spoke different languages like Ketua and Imara, which their descendants still speak today.

In the Star Wars movies, the language spoken by Java, the HUD, is based on Ketua.

Cool! Now, before we get into the story,

we have to talk about how these stories got to us.

The stories we do in Greek out are typically from people who have written down their own stories,

even if they have come to us through other cultures.

Many Greek myths were preserved by the Romans and the Islamic cultures of the Middle East.

And would not have reached us today if not for them.

Exactly. And many of the stories of the Incans were destroyed or forgotten.

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